Thank you! I’ve cut down to slightly less than half of what i’d normally consume. I think I can live without the two monsters I was drinking in the morning. I’ll probably drink one or two coke zeros and see how that goes. I’m not sure I want to give it up completely yet. Though I will if I have to.
That’s good to hear. Has your anxiety reduced at all? I hope so. Do you know about some of the breathing exercises that you can do? These are things that you can do even if you’re in public to calm yourself if you start to feel nervous.
Look up box breathing or square breathing. It’s basically just inhaling and holding and then exhaling on the count of 4 for each one. There are variants of this too where you breathe in for 4 hold for 2 and then breathe out for 4. It’s important to remember not to force this if it feels uncomfortable just go at what feels comfortable for you and you can build up until you’re at these counts. These methods are very helpful and practical so much so that they’re used by trained military and other professionals while in situations where they need to calm their anxiety.
Another method is to count to ten slowly, while you breathe in on one, breathe out on two, breathe in on three, breathe out on four and so on up to ten or more.
The biggest hurdle is just remembering to use a breathing exercise when you feel anxious.
But if you make a routine of it where maybe every day, when you wake up, you do it.And if you keep doing that, you’ll get used to doing that and you’re more likely to remember later on if you feel anxiety that there’s this breathing thing you can do to help yourself.
It’s still pretty early but I’ve been consuming ~60 mg of caffeine daily whereas before it was probably 800 or so. I feel less anxious so far. I have practiced square breathing, it helps me sometimes. I sometimes find it difficult if i’m breathing heavily. I never considered daily breathing exercises. I’ll try it out. Thank you!
Thank you! I’ve cut down to slightly less than half of what i’d normally consume. I think I can live without the two monsters I was drinking in the morning. I’ll probably drink one or two coke zeros and see how that goes. I’m not sure I want to give it up completely yet. Though I will if I have to.
That’s good to hear. Has your anxiety reduced at all? I hope so. Do you know about some of the breathing exercises that you can do? These are things that you can do even if you’re in public to calm yourself if you start to feel nervous.
Look up box breathing or square breathing. It’s basically just inhaling and holding and then exhaling on the count of 4 for each one. There are variants of this too where you breathe in for 4 hold for 2 and then breathe out for 4. It’s important to remember not to force this if it feels uncomfortable just go at what feels comfortable for you and you can build up until you’re at these counts. These methods are very helpful and practical so much so that they’re used by trained military and other professionals while in situations where they need to calm their anxiety.
Another method is to count to ten slowly, while you breathe in on one, breathe out on two, breathe in on three, breathe out on four and so on up to ten or more.
The biggest hurdle is just remembering to use a breathing exercise when you feel anxious. But if you make a routine of it where maybe every day, when you wake up, you do it.And if you keep doing that, you’ll get used to doing that and you’re more likely to remember later on if you feel anxiety that there’s this breathing thing you can do to help yourself.
It’s still pretty early but I’ve been consuming ~60 mg of caffeine daily whereas before it was probably 800 or so. I feel less anxious so far. I have practiced square breathing, it helps me sometimes. I sometimes find it difficult if i’m breathing heavily. I never considered daily breathing exercises. I’ll try it out. Thank you!